What’s On TV Thursday

10 P.M. (Starz Cinema) IN AMERICA (2003) With their entire lives packed into a groaning station wagon, Johnny (Paddy Considine), an Irish actor, and his wife, Sarah (Samantha Morton, above with Mr. Considine), enter the United States from Canada illegally and try to start over in a battered walk-up apartment in New York after the death of their young son. In this drama, directed by Jim Sheridan, Djimon Hounsou is Mateo, who is a reclusive painter dying of what seems to be AIDS and is befriended one Halloween by Johnny and Sarah’s daughters (Emma and Sarah Bolger). Mr. Sheridan (“My Left Foot”) wrote the film with his own two daughters, Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan, and all three received Oscar nominations, as did Ms. Morton and Mr. Hounsou. “This movie, from moment to moment, feels small, almost anecdotal,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. “It is only afterward that, like Mr. Sheridan’s other films, it starts to grow into something at once unassuming and in its own way grand.”

7:30 P.M. (Showtime) BRONX OBAMA (2014) One day in 2008, Louis Ortiz, a middle-aged, unemployed father from the Bronx, shaved off his goatee, left. What he saw looking back in the mirror was a face of hope and change, the kind that could make money — in other words, the face of Barack Obama. In this documentary the director Ryan Murdock follows Mr. Ortiz, an Obama impersonator, for three years across the president’s two terms, and along the way encounters guys who look a lot like Bill Clinton and Mitt Romney.

8 P.M. (CBS) BIG BANG THEORY Penny (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) finds that her flirtatious sales technique works better than she expected when a lovelorn doctor shows up at her door. In “Mom,” at 8:30, Bonnie (Allison Janney) grows angry when Christy (Anna Faris) makes some disastrous financial decisions that threaten their living situation. And in “Two and a Half Men,” at 9, Walden (Ashton Kutcher) decides to get his priorities straight after a health scare on Halloween.

8 P.M. (Hallmark) AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION HERO DOG AWARDS Jennifer Coolidge hosts this ceremony honoring dogs who have displayed exemplary devotion, bravery and companionship in various service roles; there is a category for pets.

10 P.M. (13) THEATER CLOSE-UP Sigourney Weaver hosts this series, a collaboration between PBS and a group of Off Broadway theaters, which continues with “Sorry,” the third of Richard Nelson’s “The Apple Family Plays,” presented by the Public Theater. Set in 2012, on the day of President Obama’s re-election, the production stars Jon DeVries and Laila Robins.

10 P.M. (CBS) ELEMENTARY Season 3 begins as Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) tries to make amends with Watson (Lucy Liu, right) so he can return to work for the New York Police Department after his firing by MI6. Gina Gershon appears as the head of a criminal enterprise; Ophelia Lovibond plays Holmes’s new apprentice, Kitty Winter.

10:30 P.M. (HBO Signature) SYRIANA (2005) George Clooney, Matt Damon and Jeffrey Wright star in a series of parallel stories set in this epic, written and directed by Stephen Gaghan from the book by Robert Baer, about the greasy underbelly of the international oil business. Mr. Clooney won an Oscar for best supporting actor as a C.I.A. operative for whom the war on terror becomes a little too personal. “Rather than dispense with the familiar signposts of Hollywood storytelling, it brings them to a state of heightened attention and pushes beyond the clichés of heroism and suspense toward something a good deal more unsettling,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. “Something you might even call realism.”

What’s Streaming Now

ANNEDROIDS This original children’s series from Amazon, a live-action adventure created by J. J. Johnson (“Dino Dan”) for ages 4 to 7, follows Anne (Addison Holley), an 11-year-old genius, and her human friends and android assistants as they make amazing scientific discoveries while undertaking the biggest experiment of all: growing up. Six new episodes are available for streaming. (amazon.com) KATHRYN SHATTUCK